Top 10 Kenyan romantic public couples

Public figures usually don’t show off their true feeling and affections towards their partners in public. They protect their private life from paparazzi and journalists. However, sometimes general public can eyewitness displays of affection from such people.

Here are 10 Kenyan couples who are not afraid to show their affection in public and are considered most romantic partners:

They are one of the most photogenic couples as well as the most elegant, fashionable and flamboyant middle-aged preachers in Kenya. Apart from ministering at the Jubilee Christian Church, they have graced a couple of lifestyle magazines including True Love.

Kathy is a role-model for the young, saved and upwardly mobile woman in Nairobi who attends her Woman Without Limit sessions. Alan is your typical charismatic, evangelical preacher who can pass for an alpha male, exuding all that energy on the pulpit, making him a magnetic force.

2. Ababu Namwamba and Priscah Mwaro

Ababu Namwamba and Priscah Mwaro during their mother's day vacation at Reykjavik Iceland.

Recently, the Budalangi MP had openly shared his photo with a wife vacationing in Iceland. And the photo triggered a lot of controversy as men castigated him as ‘un-African’ for being all mushy, while women prayed that Ababu becomes a shining example to Kenyan men they consider unromantic.

Being handsome and eloquent, Alfred Mutua looks great together with his second wife, Lilian Ng’ang’a. Though lots of people decry Mutua’s decision to leave his first wife for the younger one, Mutua obviously doesn’t care about it. His WhatsApp profile reads: “Happy, blessed and loved. God is Good.”

They are considered the loveliest political couple in the gubernatorial category.

4. Uhuru Kenyatta and his wife Margaret

Uhuru Kenyatta hugs his wife Margaret after marathon

President Uhuru Kenyatta isn’t afraid to express his love towards wife Margaret in public. He gave her a warm hug after she finished the 21km inaugural First Lady’s Marathon that was part of ‘Beyond Zero’ charity campaign, an initiative to help address problems associated with maternal and childcare.

His actions evidently enriched media debates on radio and social sites. Nevertheless, this tender act was made to support the wife after a long run for a good cause.

5. Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Njeeri

Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Njeeri. Credit: Orange County Register

This couple has gone through a tough life experience as Njeeri was raped in their apartment while Prof Ngugi was fighting other attacker in another room. After Prof Ngugi realized what had happened he even asked the rapist to kill him. During the press conference that shed light to this horrible incident, Ngugi stood by Njeeri keeping his arm over her shoulder, tenderly.

Rugby player Collins Injera decided to return to his pregnant wife, Chebet Limo, instead of taking part in the fifth round of the HSBC Rugby Sevens World Series. Collins and his wife are blessed with two beautiful daughters. Collins often flaunts the photos of his wife and daughters on social media pages describing them as ‘the people I work for.’

7. Catherine Ndereba and Anthony Maina

Catherine Ndereba and Anthony Maina

Catherine met her husband at the training college for prison employees where Maina was part of the prisons athletics team. Later when he was a corporal and she was a senior sergeant and could pull rank on him she chose to stay humble. He worked in prison department headquarters while she was a telephone operator at the Nairobi West prison so he didn’t have to salute her all the time.

When Ndereba entered the 1999 Boston Marathon, Ndereba fell apart after running for 18 miles, finishing five minutes behind in sixth place. “I was ready to tell her to quit marathons because I don’t like to see her running in pain,” Maina said at the time. Yes, Maina, now a helicopter pilot, cannot exercise with his wife like in the past but he does some light jogging with her when he’s not braving the skies.

MP Isaac Mwaura attracted attention when he posted photos of him going down on bended knee as his now fiancée, Nelius Rwamba, looked overwhelmed by surprise. In April this year, the MP made a follow up of similar photos when he posted pictures of their traditional wedding. The MP has never shied from expressing his love for his longtime lover.

9. Michael Ranneberger and Ruth Konchellah

Michael Ranneberger and Ruth Konchellah

Former US ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger married his long time girlfriend Ruth Konchellah, a charity worker, in a low key civil ceremony at the Attorney General’s office Nairobi in 2013. He had publicly admitted his love for Konchellah, saying that he dreamed to make her his queen after she impressed him at a women’s rights event in a small village of Enoosen in Trans Mara.

Justice Agnes Murgor, her husband Wildlife Direct chair and ‘learned friend’ Philip Murgor are what can be described as ‘power law couple.’ When Justice Murgor was in the firm, which she founded and Phillip joined her later to form Murgor&Murgor, her hubby claims she handled entirely different roles so the question of crossing paths did not arise. Since their professional paths hardly cross nowadays, the couple is occasionally spotted at high-end get-togethers posing for photos.

Who else can be included in this list of Kenya's most romantic couples?